[131720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Tue Nov 2 08:26:27 2010
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:26:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <33523907.71288700035426.JavaMail.root@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> About the only hack I can see that *might* make sense would be that
> home CPE does NOT honour the upstream lifetimes if upstream
> connectivity is lost, but instead keeps the prefix alive on very
> short lifetimes until upstream connectivity returns.
Yep, that's the hack I was getting at.
As a non-technical end-user, once my CPE has got a prefix from my ISP and advertised it to the devices on my LAN, the same prefix should keep working until:
-my ISP assigns a different one
-the end of time
whichever comes first :)
Having my PC not be able to talk to my printer any more because my DSL / cable / wimax / whatever has been down for "too long" is not acceptable.
Regards,
Tim.
